The team of nurses and health care assistants manage the treatment room.  Our chronic disease management clinic review patients with:

• Diabetes
• Asthma
• Women’s health – contraception, cervical cytology (smear test)
• Hypertension
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Travel clinic

In addition, a range of nursing procedures are also carried out e.g management of wounds and dressings, ear syringing, injections, tests and investigations.

Their clinics include:

• Phlebotomy
• Blood pressure monitoring
• ECG’s (heart monitoring)
• Minor dressings

Contraceptive Services

We provide a range of contraceptive and family planning services including advice for teenagers. In the first instance, please make an appointment with a doctor. Repeat prescriptions will normally be available through an appointment with a nurse.

Cervical Smears

Women are invited to attend for screening by the Cervical Screening Wales service. On receipt of the invite, please contact reception on 01495 246531.

If you have any unusual symptoms such as bleeding after sex or between periods, you should see your doctor, even if you have had a recent negative test.

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Breast Screening

Breast screening looks for breast cancer before symptoms show. This involves taking mammograms, which are x-rays of the breast. Women aged from 50 up to 70 are invited for breast screening every 3 years.

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Sexual Health Clinics

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 Child Health

• Childhood immunisations are held on certain Wednesday afternoons.
• Baby clinics: Health Visitors hold their clinics at the Ashfield Road site every Thursday afternoon.

Blood clinics

Blood clinics are run daily.

Diabetic Clinic

Diabetic clinics at Newbridge Surgery are where patients are seen by practice nurses with a special interest in diabetes. Patients are requested to have their bloods and urine sent to the laboratory 2 weeks before their clinic appointment so that the results are back in time. Medication reviews can be carried out at this appointment to update repeat prescriptions, so no doctor's appointment is necessary unless the nurses are concerned. With regular checkups booked depending on patient results they will become familiar with the nursing team.

The retinal screening program is also carried out at the surgery, for the annual diabetic eye test to be performed. Patients needing this service will be contacted by letter.

To book any of these clinics please contact the surgery on the number 01495 246531

Asthma

Asthma patients are required to be monitored in asthma clinic every 6 months. This is to ensure that patients are taking inhalers appropriately and the dosage of medication. Patients are taught how to manage their asthma themselves with a management plan, so they are in control. The clinics are run by practice nurses who have a special interest in asthma. At the appointment, repeat prescriptions will be updated to last until the next appointment, which will be given according to the control of symptoms.

For an appointment please contact reception on the number Tel 01495 246531.

Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease

The clinics are run by nurses with a special interest in Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease and are run on a selection of days. The aims of these clinics are to give support, and advice about inhalers or symptoms that patients would like to discuss. At this appointment repeat prescriptions will be updated if there are no problems.

For an appointment please contact reception on the number 01495 246531

The First Contact Physiotherapy Service:

Individuals are able to access assessment by a physiotherapist directly within the GP practice rather than seeing their GP first if they have a concern regarding a musculoskeletal problem and its management.

The service will provide

An appropriately detailed assessment of the individual and their MSK complaint by an experienced clinician in MSK medicine

And help to support appropriate decision making and advice on:

1. Short and long-term self-management recommendations
2. The need for onwards referral to therapy services (physiotherapy, podiatry etc)
3. The need for further investigations (such as x rays, MRI scans, blood tests) to support the assessment and decision making process
4. The need for onwards referral for opinion and intervention from a secondary care consultant service (Orthopaedics, Rheumatology)